What's travel good for: Recreation vs re-creation

Travel is a pleasure to most. Like the lunch you ate on the same day today but 10 years ago which you forgot all about already.

But to me travel is so much more.

It’s showing your self, your mind, your nervous system, that a different reality is possible.

Rather than trying to create a reality bit by bit over time in your city/country/home environment, you jumpstart it by teleporting yourself into a foreign place with just the qualities you seek.

Within a day of arriving, you are already living in a new reality.

One which you day-dreamed about and begged so hard for to make it happen back home. Yet, in almost an instant—a long sleep on a flight—that reality was made possible. You can see how it all works together. You can live, breathe, eat, drink, sleep the million things you never thought of in your dreamed reality.

That’s how powerful travel is. To me.
That’s why I love travel so much.

It’s not just recreation, it’s re-creation.